Transfer Student Courses in Cultural Anthropology These pages are no longer maintained. Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:39 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. Fall Academic Term, 2004 (September 7 - December 23) Search Only the Transfer Student LS&A Course Guide (Advanced Search Page) Search the Full LS&A Course Guide (Advanced Search Page) Anthropology Waitlist/Override Procedures For courses that are closed and do not maintain waitlists on wolverine access: If the course has discussions sections, attend the first class meeting and ask for an override If the course does not have discussion sections, contact the instructor. ANTHRCUL 101. Introduction to Anthropology. Introductory Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Andrew J Shryock (ashryock@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Primarily for first- and second-year students. (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. Does not count toward anthropology concentration requirements. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This introductory course exposes and explores the structures of inquiry characteristic of anthropology and surveys the field's four subdisciplines (biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology), providing a first glimpse of the field's overall context, history, present status, and importance. The principal aim of the course is to help students develop a coherent view of the essential concepts and methods that typify the discipline. It stresses unifying principles that link the subdisciplines and thereby create anthropology's comprehensive, holistic world view. It teaches students various ways of learning and thinking about the world's many designs for living in time and space. It prepares them to integrate and interpret information, to evaluate conflicting claims about human nature and diversity, and to think critically. Topics covered include: the nature of culture; human genetics, evolution and the fossil record; the concept of race; primate (monkey and ape) behavior; language and culture; systems of marriage, kinship and family organization; sex-gender roles; economics, politics, and religion in global perspective; the cultural dimension of economic development and contemporary social change, and the emergence of a world system. Required readings come from one introductory text and additional paperbacks. Lectures and discussion-recitation. Two objective exams (multiple choice and true or false questions) cover the two halves of the course. The second exam is given on the last day of class. There is no final exam and no term paper. Section leaders require quizzes and a short paper. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 4 ANTHRCUL 101. Introduction to Anthropology. Introductory Courses Section 026. Instructor(s): Holly Peters-Golden (hollypet@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Primarily for first- and second-year students. (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. Does not count toward anthropology concentration requirements. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This introductory course surveys the field's four subdisciplines (biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology), providing a first glimpse of the field's overall context, history, present status, and importance. The principal aim of the course is to help students develop a coherent view of the essential concepts, structures, and intellectual methods that typify the discipline. It stresses unifying principles that link the subdisciplines and thereby create anthropology's comprehensive, holistic world view. It teaches students various ways of learning and thinking about the world's many designs for living in time and space. It prepares them to integrate and interpret information, to evaluate conflicting claims about human nature and diversity, and to think critically. Topics covered include: the nature of culture; human genetics, evolution and the fossil record; the concept of race; primate (monkey and ape) behavior; language and culture; systems of marriage, kinship and family organization; sex-gender roles; economics, politics, and religion in global perspective; the arts; and medicine. Required readings come from one introductory text, a case studies book and additional paperbacks. Lectures and discussion-recitation. Three multiple choice exams each cover one-third of the course. The third exam is given on the last day of class. There will be several quizzes and short writing assignments due in section. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 3 Waitlist Code: 4 ANTHRCUL 232. Genes, Genealogies, Identities: Anthropological Perspectives. Ethnology-Topical Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Jennifer E Robertson (jennyrob@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This interdisciplinary, multi-media course hightlights, from anthropological, historical, and ethical perspectives, the various ways in which various people around the world have connected genes (and genetics) with genealogies and identities. The main focus is on how knowledge about genes and genetics, and ideas about ancestry and genealogical beliefs, contribute to ongoing processes of identification rather than to the fixing of "permanent" identities. How and to what end genetic knowledge has been mapped onto dominant or "common sense" concepts of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and kinship is critically analyzed. The ethical dilemmas posed by the intersections of genetics, racism or ethnocentrism, identity politics, and the market economy are debated, and the various images of genetics in the global mass media, advertising, and popular genealogy websites are surveyed. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 3 ANTHRCUL 298. Topics in Cultural Anthropology. Introductory Courses Section 002. Instructor(s): Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). May be elected for a maximum of 12 credits. May be elected more than once in the same term. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided. Contact the Department. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ANTHRCUL 305. Peoples and Cultures of the Himalaya. Ethnology-Regional Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Thomas E Fricke (tomf@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: One course in cultural anthropology. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A general survey of Himalayan peoples as well as a discussion of the varieties of ethnic groups in the region. The course materials focus largely on Nepal, but other countries are covered as well. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 3 ANTHRCUL 315 / AMCULT 316. Native American Peoples of North America. Ethnology-Regional Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Native American communities, often deeply rooted in traditional places and voices — despite relocations and losses of native languages — all involve strong family ties and histories of local and regional power struggles. In this course, we look at cross cultural dynamics and tribal identities in political encounters between Native American peoples and various others: developers, environmentalists, educators, other governmental authorities, poets, and social scientists, to name a few. Key issues include land rights, family relations, alcoholism, and freedom of religion. We also look at contemporary Native American fiction, non-fiction, and film documentaries as cultural forces which challenge others' constructions of who Native American peoples are. A recurrent question: what are the limits and possibilities of self-definition for Native American peoples, in what circumstances? Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 4 ANTHRCUL 319. Latin American Society and Culture. Ethnology-Regional Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): David L Frye (dfrye@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines the cultures and societies of contemporary Latin America, a vast and varied region with more than twenty countries spread over one and a half continents that have developed over more than 500 years of history. We will cultivate an awareness of the particularities of local ways of life while searching for shared themes and histories that in some ways unite the many societies of this vast region. Topics covered include: race, ethnicity, and national identity; indigenous rights and citizenship; religion and religious change; gender issues; class and economic development; and immigrant communities within Latin America. As a student, you will be expected to keep up with reading and writing assignments and to participate actively in lectures and discussion sections. By the end of this course you should have a grasp of the various countries and regions that make up Latin America; the most important social divisions within those regions; and the nature of current developments in Latin American societies. This is an introductory course on the region, with no prerequisites other than a desire to learn new things. Grades will be based on participation, essays, and exams. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 2 Waitlist Code: 4 ANTHRCUL 332. Social Forms. Ethnology-Theory/Method Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided. Contact the Department. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ANTHRCUL 333. Non-Western Legal Systems, I. Ethnology-Topical Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Maxwell K Owusu Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The nature, function, and development of law. Law and society. Problems of social control: why is law obeyed in societies without courts and in societies with courts. Dispute settlement procedures and the judicial process; civil and criminal law; principles of liability for legal wrongs; women, class and community; the impact of Western law on customary, tribal, or aboriginal law. Case studies from Africa, Middle East, Asia, Europe, the Americas. A good introduction to comparative law from an anthropological perspective. Requirements: four 3-5 page papers, or three 6-8 page student papers. Lecture/discussion format. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 3 ANTHRCUL 370 / LING 370. Language and Discrimination: Language as Social Statement. Linguistic Anthropology Section 001. Instructor(s): Ann Lesley Milroy (amilroy@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: LING 210 recommended. (3). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See LING 370.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ANTHRCUL 416 / HBEHED 516. Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives. Ethnology-Topical Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Marcia C Inhorn (minhorn@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This medical anthropology course explores the field of global health, particularly the serious health problems facing Third World populations. The course provides an introductory survey of the basic issues and initiatives in international health over the past three decades, as well as in-depth case studies of three nations (Haiti, Mali, Egypt). Five major areas of focus include: the history of international health development and bureaucracies; the political ecology of infectious disease; child survival; women's reproductive health; and men's health under "modernization." The underlying purpose of the course is to develop students' awareness of the political, socioeconomic, and cultural complexity of health problems in so-called "developing" nations and the consequent difficulties of developing effective long-term solutions. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: 3 Waitlist Code: 4 ANTHRCUL 427 / CAAS 427 / WOMENSTD 427. African Women. Ethnology-Topical Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites & Distribution: One course in African Studies, anthropology, or women's studies. CAAS 200 recommended. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See CAAS 427.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ANTHRCUL 438. Urban Anthropology. Ethnology-Topical Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Hart Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. What characterizes life in an urban society? What are the common features and/or variations between urban societies situated in different cultural and historical contexts? In addressing such questions, this course will be organized around two broad concerns: 1) the anthropology of cities: the main factors shaping the nature of urban life, the historical emergence of urban forms, and different forms of urbanism and 2) anthropology in cities: examining themes such as social networks, class, gender, idioms of identity, and the status of institutions, with reference to specific ethnographic accounts. Topics will be addressed through lectures and classroom discussion and will be based on the reading of required texts. Assessment will be based on two take-home exams. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. ANTHRCUL 447. Culture, Racism, and Human Nature. Ethnology-Theory/Method Section 001. Instructor(s): Melvin D Williams (mddoublu@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Two courses in the social sciences. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines the possible origins of culture to understand the unique behavior and historical development of Homo sapiens and traces the salient features of human history and contemporary modernity to discuss and explain the nature of humans. The understanding of the nature of humans and their development will enable the students to comprehend, explain and resolve racism, part of a pan-human phenomenon. Is racism fundamental to the character of human culture? The course will suggest that many of our modern social problems have a common generation — the nature of human culture. That would suggest that the solutions will require a social transformation in the character of human culture. These examinations of human culture will require us to return to the discussions of Leslie White (culture is autonomous) and Alfred Kroeber (culture is superorganic) to determine the possibilities of social transformations that contemporary society may require. The course looks at human Biophobia - the denial, defiance, and defilement of our animal kinship. This biophobia and denial gives humans an inferiority complex that is only assuaged by classism, racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, sectarianism, ageism, nationalism, disableism, speciesism, and power (CRESSANDS-POWER). The present stockpile of human weapons, the rage of international terrorism, and the oppression that CRESSANDS-POWER creates requires a new human revolution — THE ECOLOGICAL REVOLUTION. In that revolution the human body and the Earth will have such value that we can develop a new human-global community and end the human plague that CRESSANDS-POWER has brought upon our species. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 3 ANTHRCUL 451 / CAAS 459. African-American Religion. Ethnology-Topical Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Melvin D Williams (mddoublu@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: One introductory course in the social sciences. CAAS 201 recommended. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will examine the nature of religion in the lives of humans, within the framework of culture, and as a pervasive social institution. It will focus on the special case of the intensive and involved character of religion in the history and the lives of African-Americans. These special uses of religion create special problems. We will analyze those problems. The course objectives are to: introduce the subject of religion as a social institution, as a pervasive component of culture, and as a contemporary adjustment and adaptation to peculiar social problems; demonstrate how an anthropological analysis can be used to understand religion in contemporary society; develop skills in critical thinking and analysis; present the relationship between culture, institutions, religion, subculture, and the nature of man (humans); and enable students to understand the religious institutions of humans generally and African-Americans specifically. The course is open to all students, and it requires no special background or preparation. There will be two examinations. Class participation and attendance are graded. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 3 ANTHRCUL 519 / LING 517 / GERMAN 517. Principles and Methods of Historical Linguistics. Linguistic Anthropology Section 001. Instructor(s): Sarah G Thomason (thomason@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Graduate standing, or permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See LING 517.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. These pages are no longer maintained. Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:39 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. 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